fox news media analyst howard kurtz takes a look at the highs and lows. >> these attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong. >> from his first day in the briefing room, sean spicer was delivering the president's message. ripping the press. >> the responsibility to hold donald trump accountable, i am here to tell you it goes two ways. we will hold the press accountable as well. >> an affable spokesman, he became the president's pitbull. the critique not if it weighs favorably by the boss and things often got heated. >> hold on, hold on. hold on, hold on. i'm trying to answer your question, jonathan. if you can calm down. i appreciate your agenda but the reality is -- no, hold on. report the facts. every single person who has been briefed on this subject has come away with the same conclusion. republican, democrat, i'm sorry that that disgusts you. >> spicer frequently called the media bias, liberal, and unfair. >> they assume facts and take narratives and continue them with the fact that they are clearly not true. they are clearly trying to draw viewersh

fox news media analyst howard kurtz with his take. that is next.elissa: so the mainstream media is up in arms over the revelation that president trump had a conversation with russia's vladmir putin during a huge dinner at the g20. just take a listen to this. >> when these headlines started to cross tonight in our newsroom, it caused an audible, oh, my god, to ripple across our cubicle farm. >> because of what donald trump had done in the past, reporters, foreign policy analysts, and our allies can safely assume the worst. >> what is the unfinished business that the president decided he needed to transact after his, after his initial meeting? melissa: yeah, i mean no one ever sits down and talks to each other at a dinner. joining us now, with, his take on media reaction, "mediabuzz" host howard kurtz. rachel maddow, i will send her a paper bag and breathe into it, not pass out from hyperventilating. what is going on? >> it wasn't rachel, entire staff having oh, my god moment. this is covered in the last 24 hours if putin had been caught slipping i w

here now is howard kurtz, fox news media analyst and "mediabuzz" post. 300 people, one in a million,that. i can't help myself. so what do you think of this development? we know there's already one person who has exited the white house in the wake and within the communications department in the wake of what may or may not have happened. what do you think? . >> the person that left was the sean spicer guy, we shouldn't necessarily read too much into that. anthony scaramucci acting like the chief of staff. he's threatening to fire people over leaks. it has been an incredibly leaky white house, and i can understand great concern, the president is poorly served by the internal finger pointing that makes its way into the press. i think if he gets rid of one or two, that might send a strong message that some of this leaking has got stop. melissa: yeah, what do you think about the messageing? has it changed other than the tweeting? i mean, beyond the tweeting? >> lately the messaging is all scaramucci. he's got a very big personality. a good sense of humor, forceful tv advocate for the presi

melissa: here now is howard kurtz, "mediabuzz" host. do you join me in banning the words witch-hunt and nothing burger? i think we should fine anyone who says those two things, whatever it is 500 bucks a pop or sew their lips shut. that is what i'm going for. >> i prefer my burgers with meat. melissa: exactly. what do you think of this strategy? they are pushing back the media is going insane of the that is the default position. the default position on the other side that chases the president, you know down these alleyways everything is a 10. it is all impeachable. i don't know, how can anybody going to laugh through four years? there is so much hysteria. they will fall over dead just exhausted. >> if you want to make the argument that donald trump, jr., does that the coverage of president has been relentlessly negative, that coverage of russia story, investigation, has been very breathless at times and that some of the substance of what the president is trying to do have been minimized, that is all fine. i don't have a problem with tha

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our fox news media analyst howard kurtz will weigh in on the president's assessment. >> they have been fake news for a long time. they've been covering me in a very dishonest way. >> jon: is a frightening story, a guy in california facing charges for kidnapping a 6-year-old boy on the fourth of july. michael taught him or her and said to be arraigned tomorrow. they say he grabbed the boy who was walking ahead of his family and put him in his truck. when he tried to drive away, his truck would not start, so the boy's family, looking for him actually asked him for help, that's when one of them noticed the boy inside the truck. the boys uncle said it was terrifying. >> very scared. we asked if he if there was any chance he saw the lowboy he said no. he was trying to take off, but my dad pulled the jumper cables out of the truck so he couldn't go. that's when my uncle pulled and we went to the driver side to go stop him. >> jon: family members held him until police got there. luckily, the little boy was not injured. >> molly: president trump holding a news conference in poland ahead of his

we have howard kurtz, first to chief white house correspondents on the north lawn.ood evening. >> good evening. we know the president has wanted to shake up these communication teams. what happened today was more like an earthquake. a shakeup in the communications team with the long expected but the speed and tumbled that marked this transition was a surprise. anthony scaramucci named communications director, sean spicer resigning. >> he wanted to bring some new folks in to help wrap up the communications operation and after reflection, my decision was to recommend to the president that i give anthony and sarah a clean slate. to speak of the transition happened to less than hours. scaramucci talk to the president saying he wanted to take over communications. after a night of reported strong opposition steve bannon and reince priebus, scaramucci came to the white house this morning and the president gave him the herculean task of manning a ship. >> the ship is going in the right direction. most entrepreneurs -- what good entrepreneurs do, they start the day and they

during the now is fox news, howard kurtz, host of "media buzz" and a fox news meeting and analysis. what is going on. >> "the new york times" is asking "fox & friends" for correction over a story that president trump and the controversy began by a story from katherine harris on network website, according head of the u.s. special command service. he said in a clear reference to "the new york times," while the military was pursuing ices leader, and that lead went dead. the "the new york times." "fox & friends" said that it with on-screen headline saying they foil attempt to take out the leader. this was a leader the failing "new york times" with that feeling his credibility but also the country. the president then tweeting. the failing "new york times" boiled to catch the terrace. there agenda over national security. his letter, "the new york times" effort an apology over a malicious and inaccurate segment. no apology. here's what "fox & friends" peter doocy said today. >> "the new york times" and fox news sent a lengthy a statement that they describe their reporting to the pentagon b

in a moment, mollie hemingway, and howard kurtz, but first some breaking news. just moments ago, we go to john roberts with the very latest this evening. good evening, john. >> good evening to you. this is why the task that anthony scaramucci is about to undertake is so important. you've got first of all president who takes himself off message regularly. close things like obamacare and made america out of the water. now there's a headline in "the washington post" tonight that the attorney general jeff sessions, according to another leak from the intelligence agency, contrary to what he has said in public was heard on these intelligence intercepts the having conversations with the russian ambassador to the united states, surrogate kissed leah, about the trump campaign they had said previously that he had met with him and talked only as a u.s. sent senator. this new leak has him talking about the campaign and about u.s.-russia policy, and how that might change. that's going to be a big headache for scaramucci as he comes in. it's also going to be a headache for se

prison service to go back to basics can't even do the basics of the job i mean there is a michael howard kurtz where you have to get on to the sympathetic was this high court judge you think that was because it was within twenty four hours of. these inspector prisons peter clarke well no actually warning a staggering rise in violence and vicious cycles reoffending no the church would have been aware of the chief inspector report but during the court hearing what he was saying was that there's eight thousand of us prison officers there's what's his health and smacks of health and safety issues is anyone to the prison officer angry that we haven't seen a reprise of the rioting the uprising in birmingham prison back in december well incidentally that the report's boom boom never been made public that's route to the keep that behind closed doors or no never our efforts it is ongoing now we're not seeing any big events of violence of all the raids violence has increased within our jails on a daily basis i mean there's on average night of eighteen prison officers being assaulted every single day eve

i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." president trump escalating his attacks here and home and overseas. i sat down with kellyanne conway. the president criticized cnn and nbc in poland in response to a question, yes. but there was a hand wringing of the press. kellyanne: the president said he would like a fair, media. he has been treated very unfairly and dishonestly. not by all media. i have been paying close attention to reporters, networks, the cable stations. there are a few journalists who have done a great job. and i think those folks are doing what traditional journalism has always done. look at the screaming headlines. look at the lower third, the chryons and what they say. i think the media spends too much time talking about themselves and covering the issues they want the american public to focus on. howie: after this presser in warsaw cnn's jim acosta says because the president took the question about cnn from a friendly reporter that he granted a fake news conference. kellyanne: that's unfair. cnn has had a b

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. >> "mediabuzz" with howard kurtz is up next. howie: the president causing a big uproar on twitter after attacking mika brzezinski in for mall terms. >> he has himself lying every day and destroying the country. the president tweets whether they are personally aimed at me or aimed at me in some way. it doesn't bother we one bit. it does worry me about the country's has a childlike ego, especially with women. >> he takes things so much more personally and more viciously with women. howie: does he get too personal with female journalists? >> i think the president is pushing back against people who attack him day after day. where is the outrage over that? howie: cnn retracts its story on the russia investigation and three of its journalists are forces to resign. >> cnn is chasing ratings with fake stories like the one on anthony scaramucci. >> did you make a mistake? journalism 101 says you admit your mistake and you take corrective action. howie: was cnn's apology enough? we'll speak to anthony scaramucci. >> we can't take the bull

i'm howard kurtz. thanks for joining us. we post a lot of live original content.ou back here suny at 11:00 eastern. see you with the latest buzz. [♪] arthel: a gruesome discovery in texas this morning. authority finding 8 bodies inside a tractor-trailer parked outside a walmart in san antonio. investigators calling it a horrific case of human trafficking. eric: authority also reportedly found 30 people who were alive inside that 18-wheeler. it's a small miracle considering the unbelievable sweltering temperatures in san antonio. the temperatures soared into the triple digits at one p

howard kurtz joins us, host of "media buzz."here have only been a handful of these stories that have been wrong over the thousands and thousands about the investigation that have been reported. but now critics are pouncing. >> welsh because there has been a spate of them in just a few weeks, eric. i think this is a series of self-inflicted wounds that sort of support the trump narrative that the media can't be trusted. just the media you said. they said all 17 u.s. intelligence agencies had agreed that russian hackers were attempting to influence the election. actually, it's only 4 out of 17. each one in isolation, maybe not a huge deal. but when you have this pattern, it raises this question. are some of these stories rushed to the web or to the paper? >> eric: is it fair to pick out a few? >> i just think sometimes because there's a mistake and the cnn retraction and apolicy and so forth there is a broad brush that says everybody makes mistakes all the time and the important thing is whether the mistakes are quickly corrected.

moments from the rally, the big news today and some of the headlines for tomorrow, chris stirewalt, howard kurtzrst, to "the washington post" story that says among other things, oh officials say sessions is due to announce in coming days a number of criminal leak investigations based on his accounts of sensitive intelligence information. one of the things, chris, that the president has been calling for. >> if there's anything you think that would get donald trump off of jeff sessions' back, it would be saying, you always talk about the leaks. here's some illegality and were going to prosecute, move on it. talking to republicans today, i don't get the sense there is anything no matter how plum a piece of prize fruit sessions puts out in front of trump, is anything that's going to get him off his back. i think he hates the guy. >> bret: are reporting says he doesn't have any plans to step aside and that he still going to continue to do his job, even in the light of beleaguered, weak, and everything else he's tweeted. >> jeff sessions getting a lot of support from conservatives and republicans who

i'm howard kurtz. check our facebook page, give us a like.we will continue the debate on twitter. let me know what you think on email. we tried to read all emails. we appreciate you joining us. there is so much news here every week we try to jam it all in. we are back your next sunday at 11 eastern. with your latest buzz. >> and an alert this afternoon and a sharp response from russia to the new sanctions bill passed by congress. president vladimir putin ordering the us embassy in moscow to cut the staff by an astounding 755 diplomats and aides. the bill is expected to be signed by the president. hello welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's news headquarters". i'm eric shawn. >> everyone i am arthel neville. and the order comes after the house and senate voted almost unanimously to slap new sanctions on russia for the

moments from the rally, the big news today and some of the headlines for tomorrow, chris stirewalt, howard kurtz. first, to "the washington post" story that says among other things, oh officials say sessions is due to announce in coming days a number of criminal leak investigations based on his accounts of sensitive intelligence information. one of the things, chris, that the president has been calling for. >> if there's anything you think that would get donald trump off of jeff sessions' back, it would be saying, you always talk about the leaks. here's some illegality and were going to prosecute, move on it. talking to republicans today, i don't get the sense there is anything no matter how plum a piece of prize fruit sessions puts out in front of trump, is anything that's going to get him off his back. i think he hates the guy. >> bret: are reporting says he doesn't have any plans to step aside and that he still going to continue to do his job, even in the light of beleaguered, weak, and everything else he's tweeted. >> jeff sessions getting a lot of support from conservatives and republicans

. >> jon: our media expert howard kurtz had some thoughts on the new chief of staff at the white househere's what he has to say. >> there is no question that the press has been consistently and almost relentlessly negative to the president since he took office. but you cannot blame it on the press if republicans could not pass the health care bill. or the congress, both of the houses, led by republican state passed a tougher sanctions bill. and on and on and on. i would caution that these things can sometimes be a femoral in the constantly changing climate of washington. >> jon: it could be a short honeymoon. very much considering the 93% of the trump administration is negative. 91% on cbs. 81% in "the new york times." could one man behind the scenes change that? >> trump will always be the star, and the coverage will dictate that regardless of the chief of staff. >> john kelly will not tell the congress to shut up. that is not going to be a winning strategy for the president or for him. >> jon: the media panel today. thank you both. >> molly: dangerous inmates breaking out of jail, a

here with his take, howard kurtz, host of "mediabuzz" show on fox news channel.didn't laugh. this is serious stuff. she is calling out on this, threatening a lawsuit. but they're saying this is honest mistake. >> i am usually sympathetic to honest mistakes that was not manage link a couple facts in two-day old story it was utterly fraudulent premise in six-year-old story, that "times" and other organizations knocked down. there is no evidence that mentally ill gunman in tucson ever seen the political map put out by sarah palin's committee and reprehensible attempt, on the very same day that gunman shot and wounded five people in virginia baseball practice, who steve scalise was in hospital at time by distracting from that dredging up this 2011 shooting. >> they seem to know factually one thing yet editorial writing something else. so what is the process here, howie? walk us through when an editorial is published like that, isn't there anybody checking to make sure the facts are right? >> well, sure. by definition a lead editorial in a paper like "the new york tim

joining me now fox news "mediabuzz" host, howard kurtz. n come out and say you guys in the media, you're not doing your job? >> i'm sympathetic to the argument. many business people feel this way, why can't the two parties get together to hammer out some kind of common sense compromise on all of these economic tax and regulatory issues. but as far as the media not pounding the drums here, the state of utter gridlock here has been going on 15 years through several administrations writing every day, the humidity is really bad in d.c. this time of year. political polarization contributes to that. stuart: but they're not talking about the issues which really affect people's lives. the president's growth agenda. hess job creation agenda, what impact tax cuts would have on the economy. you don't see that written about. when i look at headlines in the morning or watch broadcast news first thing in the morning, all i see is russia, russia, it never stops, howard. >> i agree with that indictment. health care is stalled in legislative quicksand. so f

fox news media analyst and host of fox's media bus, howard kurtz, explains. stick with the person behind the wrestling video treated by president trump was seen tackling a man with a photoshop cnn logo has apologized but that story behind that apology has sparked new criticism. the network saying the video endangers journalists, tracked down the creator who first posted on radix. the network isn't disclosing his identity and that triggered an uproar. >> we are protecting his safety. >> apologize when you are exposed and there is a lot of stuff on this person's site. >> cuomo deleted a tweet on the subject, the story by andrew kaczynski's says they are not publishing his name because it is citizen. he showed his remorse by saying he's taking down his offending posts and because he said he's not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. cnn reserves the right to publish his identity, should any of that change. isn't a threat? donald trump, jr. accused the network of bullying the man. tweeting. network spokesman said cnn decided not to publish th

fox news media analyst and host of fox news' media buzz, howard kurtz takes a look. >> much of the media plated as a secret meeting after the washington "the washington post" reported they had it undisclosed conversation. it was treated as breaking news. troubling revelation raising dire questions. there was a collective gasp at msnbc. >> i heard it come in like a stadium wave. oh, my gosh. did you see it? >> because of what donald trump has done in the past, reporters, foreign policy analysts, and our allies can safely assume the worst. >> this president appears to be compromised by vladimir putin. if nothing else, i thought patty was not vulnerable, and now this. >> here's a guy sitting next to trump for an hour who try to influence the campaign. we don't know anything about it. >> there was more skepticism at fox news. >> what is so nefarious about it that he's not able to have a normal conversation with other people attending? >> it is part of the anti-trump hysteria. >> the white house said it was small talk and because the accounts false, malicious, absurd. should they have made it

we have howard kurtz, first to chief white house correspondents on the north lawn.

we have howard kurtz, first to chief white house correspondents on the north lawn.ood evening. >> good evening. we

. >> "mediabuzz" with howard kurtz is up next.sing a big uproar on twitter after attacking mika brzezinski in for mall terms. >> he has himself lying every day and destroying the country. the president tweets whether they are personally aimed at me or aimed at me in some way. it doesn't bother we one bit. it does worry me about the country's has a

let's bring in howard kurtz, lisa boothe, republican strategist, and both are fox news contributor's.f i could start with you. you've covered many presidents and this was a little bit unusual. maybe not unusual for president trump >> the venue was unusual. hardly shocking that president trump taking a few more wax at cnn and nbc. it was startling, and as you know, asked renee for an american president for denouncing the media, next to a foreign leader who is crackdown on his own media. the president kind of muddied the story line of a very serious, well-crafted and well delivered speech in poland. for a guy that often complains with some justification about the media not covering the substantive stuff is reckoned administrator, he made a distraction full well knowing that the media would pounce on us. >> dana: lisa, i always say that president trump keeps serving of dessert first. instead of making them eat their vegetables. the speech was the vegetables, but he always sends up the dessert first. >> does or does good. [laughs] this is a question of it's the time or the place for presi

bring in howard kurtz, host of "mediabuzz".reat article. >> thank you. cheryl: is he right? >> most americans would say he's right. why can't we do something about the partisan paralysis in washington? the reason it's not going on more is 20 years, bush administration, obama administration, trump administration, like saying washington is a human place in july, and when you have all this polarization, polarized parties, polarized members, districts, constituents, polarized media and social media now and tad to a subject that is difficult as health care, you have today, nothing gets done. cheryl: here's the thing, story lines going on right now, chaos, donald trump, jr. about a meeting that happened a year ago that's now we're talking hearings and appearances, does jamie dimon have a point that the media needs to refocus on the actual policy debate in washington? which is what they voted on last year, which is tax reform? that is health care, and get away from the noise? >> he has an absolute point. we are so addicted to scandal,

you howard kurtz, host of "mediabuzz."d snub of poland's first lady and handshake didn't exist, ivanka sitting at meeting instead of her father. this big fuss about non-entity stories, what is going on? >> the polish first lady's handshake was nonstory. this story involving ivanka trump is of utter insignificance i can't believe it is story at all. president had to step out of the meeting. she sad in. didn't do or say anything with scintilla of controversy. there is just, on the left and also in some elements of the mainstream media resentment of ivanka trump. she is after all, stuart, a white house official. but they looked to pounce on any perceived misstep. stuart: it is never over though, is it? it is never over. there is huge meeting. there were concrete steps taken at that meeting by our president, staking out the american position. wasn't really covered. it was covered from the european perspective, america is always, always, always wrong. i would have thought this would come to an end by now, that our media would b

on media buzz howard kurtz has to talk to anthony scaramucci about the retracted cnn story about him. and fox news sunday this week, taking a closer look at the health care debate with senator rand paul, who has been highly critical of the current senate plan. check your local listings for time and channel. >> day 2 of the travel ban is going up without the drama that marked the executive order shortly after he took office. will car at lax. we remember the scene of chaos a couple months ago, seems a lot coldeaelemer now. >> reporter: absolutely. this is scaled-back compared to what we saw earlier this year at airports all across the country including here at lax. we have seen a handful of protesters over the past couple days but nothing like the protests we saw earlier this year. the supreme court reinstated the revised band monday, the court will make a final determination of the travel ban, in the meantime six countries will be impacted, iran, libya, sudan, syria and yemen but there are exceptions for travelers with bona fide ties to the united states including immediate family memb

joining us now, howard kurtz, host of "media buzz." really ignoring a very important story. that's the way i see it. how about you? >> well, i would say minimizing the story. there were pieces in "the washington post" and new york times, for example, and the problem with why this isn't a huge story is that we don't know that much about this case. right now the allegations are about bank fraud. there's a lot of assumptions and suspicions that this was an i.t. guy, could it be related to the hacking, could it be some kind of espionage, but that's not what's being charged in the case. stuart: why don't we see the investigative teams at the new york times and "the washington post" and nbc and "60 minutes," why aren't they looking into the background here? three pakistani brothers trying to get -- one of them trying to get out of the country, they all have access to debbie wasserman-schultz's private e-mail system and to nine democrats in the house, one of whom is on the intelligence committee? where's the investigative reporting? >> becaus